Headline
Subbroke Holme: Film Company to Burn Historic Mansion
Publication Date
1925-02-13
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Publication Year
1925
Page
6
Summary

London, January 15 – Public opinion is shocked at the announcement that a film company has purchased the fine old Sibthrop mansion – said to be one of the most magnificent specimens of Georgian mansion 120 years old – for the sole purpose of burning it to the ground as part of a film. The Sibthrop mansion, better known as Subbroke Holme is situated near Lincoln. The castle has long passed out of the hands of the family and is being broken up. The film company was the top bidder for the house.

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